{"id":1577,"date":"2007-08-06T21:26:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2007-10-06T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T09:57:52","slug":"iblackhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"iBlackhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span><a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1576' rel='attachment wp-att-1576' title='Space World'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/pho_to_syn_th.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Space World' \/><\/a>ia Digg, I think, a NASA\/MSNBC\/Microsoft collaboration to show off the PhotoSynth technology: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20098402\/\">Space World<\/a>. I don&#8217;t think I ever mentioned it here before: PhotoSynth is an application that can create interactive\/3d-like environments from a set of photos. The technology behind is amazing (and promising) but the actual demonstration here is a sort of boring. I was surprised to find out that Microsoft&#8217;s engineers been working on a specific <em>Firefox<\/em> plugin. It works good too.\n<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist reports that black holes could be <a href=\"http:\/\/space.newscientist.com\/article\/dn11745-could-black-holes-be-portals-to-other-universes.html\">worm holes to other dimensions<\/a>. The article quotes a couple of European physicists who studied some worm holes and were surprised to discover that it&#8217;s hard to tell the difference between either worm\/black holes. Coming soon: volunteers who&#8217;d like to make that daring plunge, or, love to have that extra gravity pull.\n<\/p>\n<p>I intentionally ignored mentioning anything about bridges and that, particularly after seeing those horrendous images of the collapse of that I-35 bridge (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/63458\/I35W-collapse\">MetaFilter thread<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9028940\">Slashdot follow-up thread on the science of bridge collapsing<\/a>). Using soundwaves to track down wear and tear in metal and concrete is old news. What do I think caused the collapse? As usual as always: probably the high traffic and a combination of construction work and heat. Not too many old bridges were made for supporting current day&#8217;s traffic. Maybe it&#8217;s time that governments check out bridges that are older than 20 to 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Digg, I think, a NASA\/MSNBC\/Microsoft collaboration to show off the PhotoSynth technology: Space World. I don&#8217;t think I ever mentioned it here before: PhotoSynth is an application that can create interactive\/3d-like environments from a set of photos. The technology &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1577\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[108,55,106,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}